'Here's the skinny'

[ChrisKH]

If I see a metaphor I don't understand, I immediately think 'rhyming slang' in the first instance, because people are always making up new ones - rhyming slang is a very open-ended and rapidly changing form of our language! So I just assumed something like "Skinny dip" --> "tip". But maybe I'm Pete Tong here...?

Or as Paul Calf has been known to say it's all a "Bag O' Shite".

 

[theclaud]

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In their real lives they work together at Starbucks.
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[theclaud]

Did you try Googling it?



http://www.phrases.o...essages/58.html
A United States Marine Corps term for information.

During world war two until the late 1960's, military orders in the
Marine Corps were copied on paper that resembled the skin of an
onion. It was extremly thin and fragile, and translucent in
appearance.

I didn't actually know where it came from. Another alternative is "here's the griff" - I believe originated in journalism but I think I picked it up from an old Peter Sellers film...

 

[Globalti]

My Wife has now gotten used to my words for things which differ from hers:

Where did you get gotten from?

 

[upsidedown]

Where did you get gotten from?

Used gotten straight from the get go.

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

Where did you get gotten from?

Can't figure out whether that's a serious question or a play on words with the "get" in there too...

Now I've got this song in my brain too.... curse you!!

 

[Hover Fly]

Where did you get gotten from?

When I was at school the teachers almost resorted to violence to stop us saying "gotten" (pronounced by us "gitten"). Now it's everywhere.

 

[dellzeqq]

Griff may be deal or scam - as in grifter. That's just a guess, mind..

 

[Fab Foodie]

Where did you get gotten from?

From somebody who was sick... it was an ill gotten gain.

IGMC.

 

[Norm]

Jitty (an alleyway which leads from one road to another) -> Ginnal/Ginnle - no idea how to spell it!

The local word for an alleyway is, apparently, a very efficient way for identifying someone's origin as it differs so widely around the country.

 

[661-Pete]

The local word for an alleyway is, apparently, a very efficient way for identifying someone's origin as it differs so widely around the country.

Indeed. We have 'twitten' round our way. And I remember 'snicket' in Yorkshire.

 

[Brains]

Indeed. We have 'twitten' round our way. And I remember 'snicket' in Yorkshire.

And 'Shambles' on the south coast, and 'Squeeze' down west

 

[Maz]

My Brummie nephews keep using the word HENCH.

Apparently it means that someone, or something is really tough, hard, cool, "sick", severe, awesome, etc.

 

[Fab Foodie]

My Brummie nephews keep using the word HENCH.

Apparently it means that someone, or something is really tough, hard, cool, "sick", severe, awesome, etc.

My girls use 'hench' as well... usually when describing certain boys...

 

[Headgardener]

The local word for an alleyway is, apparently, a very efficient way for identifying someone's origin as it differs so widely around the country.

When I was a lad we had an "entry" between the central two houses of a four house block which gave access to the back garden through a gate at the back of the house.